The Mothers’ Club brings back a tradition with the new “Flyer Favorites” Recipe Book. This collection of more than 250 tried and true recipes for appetizers, desserts, soups, entrees and more is sure to become your family’s favorite.
Books will be available for $8 beginning Monday, Nov. 23, at all Elementary Schools and the Administration office at the High School. They can also be purchased at the “Candlelight Christmas” House Tour and Craft Boutique at the Holiday Inn Viking on Dec. 6.
Proceeds from “Flyer Favorites” will help the Mothers’ Club continue to provide academic support to our students and staff.
Congratulations to the LHS Varsity Cheerleaders, who took home four trophies at the Just Stand Up! Cheer Classic Nov. 7.
The cheerleaders were awarded the “Pack the Stands” trophy, which goes to the school that shows the most community support during the day of the competition.
The “Keepin it Fresh” award was given for highest points in Creativity and Choreography.
In addition, the team earned “Top Tumbler” honors for highest score in tumbling.
Finally, the team scored First Place All Around for the highest overall score in performance, in the varsity division.
The first annual cheer classic included teams from across the area and raised more than $4,000 for the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Great job, Flyers!
Congratulations to the LHS Girls Cross Country team for a great season. The team won the Suburban West Conference Championship, the District 1 Championship and placed ninth at the State Championships.
The Online Payment function in SISK12 and Parent Portal provides the Parent the convenience to deposit money in their student(s) school meal account. This convenience to the Parent will aid the school in collecting money to cover student meals and streamline the deposit into the student's SISK12 Meals account.
PayPal is used as the clearing agent for electronic payment transactions. The parent does not need to have a personal PayPal account if paying by credit or debit, but if the parent wishes to pay directly from their banking account using their account number and routing number, then they would need their own PayPal account.
To answer that question, Kennerly students dressed up for school today as everything from baseball and soccer players, to chefs, doctors, artists and even Lindbergh teachers!
The dress-up event was in celebration of American Education Week, which is Nov. 16-20.
Lindbergh was pleased to host the following clergy (from left): Mike Priest, Christ
Community Church; Vic Gerson and Kevin Pratt, South Gate Church; Mark Revisky,
Crestwood Christian Church; Gary Armstrong, South County Bible Church; Jeff Gerald, Crestwood Christian Church; Mark Sheets, Concord Trinity United Methodist Church;
and John Childers, South County Baptist Church.
Administrators and Board of Education members met with area clergy Nov. 19 at Lindbergh Schools’ annual clergy breakfast to provide pastors with an update on the school district and discuss community issues.
Sperreng Navigators is a group that unites students from throughout the middle school to
work on service projects. The club teaches and encourages responsibility, service and caring.
“Great American hero,” “Tall and strong,” “Thank you for your support” and “You are cool” were just some of the words of admiration Sperreng Middle School Navigators used earlier this month to decorate boxes for patients at the VA Medical Center at Jefferson Barracks.
LHS Boys Cross Country Wins Conference, Ranks Ninth in State
Congratulations to the Boys Cross Country team, which won conference this year for the second year in a row, and won districts for the fourth year in a row. The team also qualified for state for the third time in four years, and placed ninth in the state of Missouri.
Lindbergh Students to Perform in The Nutcracker at the Fox
Kennerly Elementary School student Megan Mayer and Sperreng Middle School student Emeleigh Groh will join the world-renowned Joffrey Ballet from Chicago onstage in “Nutcracker at the Fox,” presented by Dance St. Louis and AmerenUE. Megan will play the role of the Gingerbread Doll, and Paige will play the role of a party guest. Both girls won their roles in auditions that attracted nearly 300 young local dancers. “Nutcracker at the Fox” will show in six performances Dec. 3-6.
Sperreng Student Performs in ‘Revenge of Space Pandas’ Sperreng Middle School student Emileigh Groh will star in the New Jewish Theatre’s Youth program, “Revenge of the Space Pandas.” The performances will be at 7 p.m. Nov. 19 and 4:30 p.m. Nov. 22, at New Jewish Theatre, 2 Millstone Campus Drive, in St. Louis.
Tuesday, Dec. 15, will be a regular 2:35 p.m. dismissal, but school will dismiss at 10:40 a.m. Wednesday-Friday. Students are required to attend all classes during the exam schedule and will be expected to use their time at home to prepare for upcoming examinations.
Kennerly Elementary School's K-Kids are joined by Crestwood-Sunset Hills Kiwanis president
Jim Sayler and Marine Sgt. Alex Lang, who delivered 120 pairs of blue jeans to the VA Medical
Center at Jefferson Barracks.
Kennerly K-Kids and the Lindbergh High School Key Club combined efforts with the Crestwood-Sunset Hills Kiwanis club this month to collect 120 pairs of blue jeans for veterans being treated at VA Medical Center – Jefferson Barracks.
All LHS students are invited to apply for two service awards being supported by the Lindbergh National Honor Society. Both awards are based on community service hours completed from Jan. 1, 2009 – Dec. 31, 2009:
The Lindbergh Schools Board of Education had a first reading of two new policies regarding controversial topics and speakers at its Tuesday, Nov. 10 meeting.
These policies were presented for discussion and will be presented at the Dec. 8 Board meeting for a second reading and recommendation to approve. Before that time, the board encourages any member of the public who has thoughts on one or both of these policies to share their comments with us on or before Tuesday, Nov. 24.
To share your suggestions, please read the policies linked above, and click here to submit your comment.
The Lindbergh High School Mothers’ Club will present the 34th annual “Candlelight Christmas” Holiday House Tour, 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 6, featuring six homes that reflect the unique personalities of the families who live there.
Any day of the year a visitor would appreciate the architectural elements and inspired decorating of these homes, but the holiday season is their time to truly shine. Proceeds from the house tour benefit Lindbergh High School students and staff, including teacher grant requests and LHS’ Renaissance student achievement recognition program. Click here for a printable flyer.
Thank you to everyone who came to the BackStoppers concert Monday, Nov. 9, and helped Lindbergh raise $6,805 for families of St. Louis police, firefighters and EMT workers killed in the line of duty.
The sold-out event included performances by Lindbergh High School Strolling Strings, Spirit of St. Louis Marching Band, A Cappella Choir and Flyerettes; as well as the St. Louis City Sheriff’s Department Color Guard, St. Louis County Police Pipes and Drum Corp, Kennerly Kids and Character Choir, Crestwood Kids, soloists Detective Andrea Sanderson, Officer Patrick Nigh and the other Andrews’ sister, and more.
Lindbergh High School and Sperreng 8th grade band members are now taking orders for Bandwiches, one of the major fundraising efforts to support the Lindbergh band program and its opportunity to represent St. Louis in the Tournament of Roses Parade on Jan. 1, 2011, in Pasadena, Calif.
Orders for the first sale are due Monday, Nov. 16, and sandwiches will be delivered Nov. 21. To order, please contact a band member or call 314-729-2400 Ext. 1705 prior to Nov. 16. (Please do not call the High School switchboard operator.)
LHS’ new student business organization, Future Business Leaders of America, recently collected 165 boxes of cereal for Angels’ Arms, an organization that works to provide homes that keep brothers and sisters together who are living in foster care.
FLBA officers specifically chose Angels’ Arms for their first civic project because of the organization’s mission and local community ties.
Stacey Cervantes (from left), Amy Richards, Michael Jobst and Brian McKenney, principal, accept the 2009 National School of Character Award Oct. 29 in Washington, DC.
At Long Elementary School, every student is taught to feel a sense of belonging, autonomy and caring for their community and each other, and character education has played a daily role in achieving this goal for the past six years. For these leadership efforts, Long was recently recognized as a 2009 National School of Character by the Character Education Partnership in Washington, DC.
Long is one of just seven schools nationwide to earn this prestigious distinction from the Character Education Partnership, which recognizes winning schools for demonstrating school transformation through low-cost, high-quality character education initiatives.
Costumes ranging from great white sharks and Superman to "Jack" of the fast-food chain fame roamed the halls Thursday, Oct. 29 as Lindbergh students and staff, young and old, prepared to celebrate Halloween.
Lindbergh Early Childhood Education put on a play called "The Little Old Lady Who was Not Afraid of Anything."
At the elementary schools, students celebrated with parades and classroom parties.
Sperreng Middle School students dressed up in '70s apparel and danced to disco music between classes, as part of Red Ribbon Week's "Dance Your Healthy Heart Out."
And at the high school, LHS thespians went trick-or-treating for canned food as part of their canned food drive, TOTS-EAT. The group collected 500 pounds of canned and dry packaged food for Feed My People.
Truman Elementary School guidance Robbie Engel (left) and principal Megan Stryjewski attended the Emerson Excellence in Teaching Awards earlier this month.
The door to the counseling office at Truman Elementary School opens into the cafeteria, where 860 children settle in daily to eat lunch, converse, and say hi to their good friend and counselor Mrs. Robbie Engel.
“We eat lunch in here a lot,” Engel says, standing in her office. “The kids know we always have an open door, and a lot of them stop by to talk.”
Engel has been a counselor since 1995, and has taught fifth grade and special education, for a total of 31 years classroom experience. Recently, Engel received the Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award, along with more than 100 St. Louis area educators, for her dedication and excellence in teaching.
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Lindbergh Schools would like to thank all of our residents who voted for Proposition L in the Nov. 3 election. Prop L passed with 65.75 percent of the vote, and will help to secure financial security for the district in the years to come.
“Without Prop L, if our property tax rate ever should exceed $2.75, we would have had to give back approximately $2 million in funding,” said Pat Lanane, assistant superintendent for finance. “Thanks to our voters, Prop L will change that. It waives the rollback so the district will only be required to ask for what we really need. We’ll get to keep the entire amount we ask for to fund student programs, and our tax rate will stay low.”
Prop L prevents the loss of $2 million in future state funding for the district by waiving a decades-old property tax rollback. It will exempt Lindbergh from a state initiative passed in 1982 called Proposition C, which established a one-cent sales tax for educational spending. Prop L will allow the district to keep all the sales tax money sent to the district.
By asking voters to waive the property tax rollback, Lindbergh joins 431 districts in the state of Missouri – and 18 of 23 districts in St. Louis County – that have already done so.
"Prop L will allow more state dollars to stay in the district, at no cost to the taxpayers, and we are extremely thankful to our voters for supporting Lindbergh Schools once again,” Lanane said.
This year, 19 Sperreng Middle School fiddlers and their families drove to West Lafayette, Ind., to participate in the annual Feast of the Hunters’ Moon along with teacher Michelle Howard. The feast is a colonial reenactment at Fort Ouiatenon, and students performed wearing 1700’s attire.
The Feast of the Hunters' Moon is a re-creation of the annual fall gathering of the French and Native Americans which took place Fort Ouiatenon, a fur-trading outpost in the mid - 1700s. It is held annually in early autumn on the banks of the Wabash River, four miles southwest of West Lafayette, Ind.
In the past week, Lindbergh Schools has been able to vaccinate more than 1,000 students for H1N1 at open clinics, and we now have a limited amount of injectable and FluMist H1N1 vaccines remaining. At this time, there are not enough doses remaining to hold a clinic, so we will begin vaccinating a small number of students during the school day.
If you are comfortable with your child being vaccinated at his or her school without your presence, please turn in the “Influenza A H1N1 Immunization Consent and History” form previously mailed to you. Additional copies of this form are available for pick up at the Lindbergh Administration Building, 4900 S. Lindbergh Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63126. We will collect consent forms on a first-come, first-serve basis to determine who will receive the vaccine at school.
The LHS Varsity Cheerleaders took time out of their day Oct. 21 to volunteer and make new friends at Friendship Village Retirement Center. The girls put together table prizes and played games with the senior citizens, and everyone in the room enjoyed themselves. The cheerleaders plan to continue volunteering at Friendship Village in the future.
Thirty seventh- and eighth-graders from Sperreng Middle School were chosen Oct. 27 to participate in the St. Louis All-Suburban Jazz/Concert Bands. The students were among 567 to audition for the ensemble and are the largest group of Sperreng band students to participate in a single year.
Six Sperreng Middle School orchestra students have been selected to play in the All-Suburban Orchestra during a Jan. 9 concert at Rockwood Summit High School. The students include Manny deLeGarreta, Mary Riley, Joel Borcherding, Abbey Jin,stephen Ahrens and Brenna Kizer
Last night our Lindbergh Teachers met to vote on the tentative agreement which was drafted by our two negotiating teams.
I am very pleased to report that our teachers have endorsed a new agreement with their "YES" votes for Lindbergh Schools. Their vote was ratified by a 6-to-1 margin.
The next step to finalize this agreement will be for our Board of Education to vote and approve this document.
This 10-month process was one of the longest negotiation efforts that Lindbergh Schools has ever experienced. But in the long run, I am confident this collaboration of hard work and time spent has allowed us to create a working agreement that will serve our students, staff and community in the very best way possible.
My sincere thanks and appreciation to all who have contributed to this cause.
Rick Francis
Assistant Superintendent for Personnel
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Lindbergh High School student organizations held a safe, fun Halloween event for Lindbergh students and siblings ages 1-10 at the annual Halloween Boonanza Friday, Oct. 23.
The free event featured games, crafts, inflatables, costume contests and, of course, trick-or-treating!
Mrs. Megan Vallis’ second-grade class worked together to make Halloween cards for soliders in Afghanistan. The letters were sent to the platoon of Michael Crain, a 2003 LHS graduate.
The Lindbergh Schools Board of Education recognized 91 Lindbergh High School AP Award winners and nine 2009 IB Diploma recipients at its October meeting.
AP Award Winners
Among the 91 AP Award winners were:
38 AP Scholars, who completed three or more AP Exams with grades of 3 or higher on a five-point scale
29 AP Scholars with Honor, who earned an average score of 3.25 on all AP Exams taken, and 3 or higher on four or more exams
24 AP Scholars with Distinction, who earned an average grade of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on five or more exams
3 National AP Scholars, who earned an average grade of 4 or higher on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 4 or higher on eight or more exams
The Mothers’ Club brings back a tradition with the new “Flyer Favorites” Recipe Book. This collection of more than 250 tried and true recipes for appetizers, desserts, soups, entrees and more is sure to become your family’s favorite.
Lindbergh Schools would like to thank all of our residents who voted for Proposition L in the Nov. 3 election. Prop L passed with 65.75 percent of the vote, and will help to secure financial security for the district in the years to come.
